BBC News Online: 'Snoop' plans put on hold

[Owen Blacker]

Roland Perry:
> 
> In the ISP world, there's been significant resistance to Nominet's
> moves towards a public domain name reverse DQ, though.

To be fair, a lot of that reluctance isn't that the data shouldn't be
available to anyone at all, it's more that I'd prefer that random stalkers
can't find my home address and phone number on a whois lookup of .uk
domains.  (As it happens, in my case, the point is moot, as my home address
is on .com whois entries, iirc, but you see what I mean).

I have no objection to law enforcement access to these data, I have every
objection to mad stalkers being able to find this information all that
easily. (And yes, I do have a mad stalker, as it happens, apparently I'm
part of a gay cabal and noone told me  :o)


Owen x
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